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The following is copied from the FAQ at Synaptics Touchpad driver page http://w1.894.telia.com/~u89404340/touchpad/ * Does it work on a Dell Inspiron 8200? No,...
Hamish Morgan
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Aug 1, 2004
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24724
Hi, Dell TrueMobile 1150, works on Libranet 2.8, SuSE 8.2 right out of the box. Uses Orinoco chipset with the PCMCIA_ cs option. I have not tried any...
Jack Schneider
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Aug 1, 2004
11:49 am
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if ya got a chance check out my new group... its for anyversion of Simcity.. or derivations there of.. regions, cities, and game tips and discussions are ...
Anthony
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Aug 1, 2004
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You might try checking the alsa mixer to make sure that nothing is muted. I had the same issue with dvd's on my laptop in gentoo. HTH ... From: steveh7676...
Jason
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Aug 1, 2004
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Not answering the read-only issue, but if you are intending to regularly backup from one drive to the other, consider using rsync instead of cp. If you want to...
Andy Farlie
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Aug 1, 2004
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Hi, My Inspiron 8200 fans are making some odd noise. I press "Fn-Z" to reread the temperature and it stops for some time. $ cat /proc/i8k 1.0 A10 BXXXXXX 2 2...
Raju Kurunkad
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Aug 1, 2004
9:20 pm
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Hamish, "fdisk -l" command returns the following: /dev/sda1 /dev/sdb1 I have two external SCSI (maxtor) drives and i respectively mount them to the following...
Amjad Farooq
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Aug 1, 2004
9:39 pm
24730
Hi Amjad, Well I'm scraping the bottom of the barrel here but try running hdparm -r /dev/sdb Instead /dev/disk2 since hdparm is designed for setting device...
Hamish Morgan
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Aug 2, 2004
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Silly question, but has the OP tried reading the output of 'dmesg' when the disk is in read-only mode? I'm wondering if it is pulling some kind of error...
John Ruschmeyer
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Aug 2, 2004
1:25 pm
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... Hash: SHA1 ... * Try removing the dust from the fans using a spray duster * Check if some screws on the bottom of your chassis are not correct mounted ...
mchristoph.eckert@...
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Aug 2, 2004
3:14 pm
24733
Well you got my curiosity up! I have a Insprion 8100, running SuSE 9.1, and sure enough if I press the Fn-Z keys, my fans immediately stop running also! I am...
Marc Chamberlin
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Aug 2, 2004
11:55 pm
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The Synaptics drivers don't seem to on the 8200. What should I do? ... page ... be ... until ... engineer ... have ... box ... So ... on ... now. ... nusence...
Jason Morganson
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Aug 3, 2004
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I've got Slackware 10.0 running just fine on a Inspiron 8500. I've got two main issues, though. The first is I have no clue how to setup acpid to properly...
Matthew
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Aug 3, 2004
3:17 am
24736
... On linux, if your kernel has support for the i8k SMM driver(most modern kernels have this support), you can use the i8k utilities from...
Raju Kurunkad
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Aug 3, 2004
6:59 am
24737
... Thanks for the advice. The fan noise stopped after I cleaned it using a can of compressed air(available at office depot). Raju...
Raju Kurunkad
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Aug 3, 2004
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24738
I have found out thur much hard work that Linux just isn't worth the trouble. I have tried about every flavor out. And while the insall on konppix and mandrake...
wiley hundley
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Aug 3, 2004
10:02 am
24739
As you have said most of the things work in linux. For modem it is the problem with dell selecting a vendor having closed source soft modem like bcm or wifi...
L.V.Gandhi
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Aug 3, 2004
12:33 pm
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... I just want to echo some of your frustrations. I have experimented with Linux in many flavors for a number of years. Like you I can get some of it to...
George H-S
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Aug 3, 2004
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... Hehe, I wish I could say the same about windows, since getting my M60 the wireless card randomnly stops working in Windows needing a reboot to get it...
adam@...
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Aug 3, 2004
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I've asked before, but does anyone here have suggestions for an 802.11g wifi miniPCI card that works in a dell C600 Latitude? The Dell one they show for...
Jeff Smith
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Aug 3, 2004
8:47 pm
24743
You have you tried the ndiswrapper???? I use it with Linksys 802.11g card with Fedora Core 2 and it was pretty easy to set up and so far no problems. ...
Gregory Gulik
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Aug 3, 2004
9:28 pm
24744
www.hitout.com ITS free...
hitout160
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Aug 4, 2004
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24745
No, I hadn't. I've tried to support companies that release specs. However, I may have to break down and try this, if no one can recommend a good miniPCI...
linux_jjs
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Aug 4, 2004
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24746
... Same here. It's a bit of a pain, but I finally decided to go with a PCMCIA card for wireless rather than going the ndiswrapper way. I've got an SMC...
Ivan Fernandez Pelaez
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Aug 4, 2004
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24747
The SMC 3635W is 802.11b, there are plenty of chipsets for 11Mbits that have open source drivers. I myself used Orinoco cards before going to 54Mbits. I am...
Gregory Gulik
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Aug 4, 2004
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atheros. a/b/g madwifi drivers. solid choice. http://www.netgate.com/5354AriesMP.html _____ From: Gregory Gulik [mailto:greg@...] Sent: Tuesday, August...
Daevid Vincent
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Aug 4, 2004
9:29 pm
24749
... http://www.prism54.org/ but they do need a non-free binary firmware that is uploaded to the card (I think, I havn't actually used one) Adam -- jabberid =...
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Aug 4, 2004
10:10 pm
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Has anyone here tried driverloader from linuxant? I've used it twice now and it works great. On Wed, 4 Aug 2004 23:10:05 +0100, adam@... ... -- ...
Bryan Simmons
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Aug 4, 2004
10:51 pm
24751
I'm not sure about the 11g, but Orinoco based cards work well. (Dell should be able to tell you which of theirs is based on it) The miniPCI card I use in my...
Howard Coles Jr.
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Aug 5, 2004
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24752
I can't say for MiniPCI (I'm still patiently waiting/watching Intel's progress for my 2200 BG MiniPCI card), but Madwifi does cover my D-Link DWL-G650...
Brian Kurle
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Aug 5, 2004
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